p.66 Biscayne Boulevard: This is the street where Blanche DuBois supposedly ran into Shep Huntleigh during Christmas Eve. It's a road in Florida, just north of the Miami River. It starts in the Central Business District and continues uptown through downtown Miami.
Once the road enters Broward County, the name changes to South Federal Highway.
Biscayne Blvd
p.66 Cadillac (Convertible): Blanche saw Shep Huntleigh get into his car-- "a Cadillac convertible..." which was considered one of the most luxurious cars of the 1940's in America. It was associated with wealth and prestige being one of the first brands of luxury vehicles. Cadillac's slogan is Life. Liberty. And the Pursuit. just as it is in The Declaration of Independence under the inalienable rights. Blanche mentions that it was a Cadillac convertible which is generally associated with the Cadillac Eldorado. The Eldorado became popular in the early 1950's which gives the connotation that Shep Huntleigh was extremely wealthy as to purchase such a new, opulent car. Eldorado is translated from Spanish as "the gilded one" or "the golden one".
p. 67 Western Union: Blanch tries to reach the operator to get Western Union, but fails because she doesn't know how to use a "dial phone". Western Union use to be the best known American company that exchanged telegrams until it discontinued its services. The fact that Blanche wanted to send a telegram and didn't know how to use a "dial phone" shows the extent of Blanche's old mindset.
p. 70 Street-Car: The term "street-car" is another name for a trolley. They use to be used to transfer passengers as well as freight, goods, back and forth on a rail system. Generally, trolleys will follow a certain rail, which indicates that it just goes back and forth under the same route. The street-car that Blanche travels on, "Desire", gives the metaphorical connotation that desire is cyclical or perhaps a constant idea or thought in the back of people's minds that just goes back and forth, back and forth.
p. 70 Poker: Stanley, the previous night, loses his temper after losing a game of poker. Poker is a game where two or more players bet on the combination of cards, their "hand", and whoever has the highest ranking "hand" in the card hierarchy or whoever is left after the other players have "folded", quit, wins the "pot", all the money that is wagered. Poker takes deception as well as strategy to win. If the player can trick the other players into believing that they have an unbeatable hand when they don't, they have a shot of winning, or in the other instance the player can trick the other players into believing that they have a bad hand and thus leading the other players to wager all their money, they can make more money. Stanley loses the game due to the card hierarchy, but later he rapes Blanche leading the reader to believe that he has won the other "game", and has deceived the audience into believing that he was as clear-cut as Blanche had once believed.
Once the road enters Broward County, the name changes to South Federal Highway.
p.66 Cadillac (Convertible): Blanche saw Shep Huntleigh get into his car-- "a Cadillac convertible..." which was considered one of the most luxurious cars of the 1940's in America. It was associated with wealth and prestige being one of the first brands of luxury vehicles. Cadillac's slogan is Life. Liberty. And the Pursuit. just as it is in The Declaration of Independence under the inalienable rights. Blanche mentions that it was a Cadillac convertible which is generally associated with the Cadillac Eldorado. The Eldorado became popular in the early 1950's which gives the connotation that Shep Huntleigh was extremely wealthy as to purchase such a new, opulent car. Eldorado is translated from Spanish as "the gilded one" or "the golden one".
p. 67 Western Union: Blanch tries to reach the operator to get Western Union, but fails because she doesn't know how to use a "dial phone". Western Union use to be the best known American company that exchanged telegrams until it discontinued its services. The fact that Blanche wanted to send a telegram and didn't know how to use a "dial phone" shows the extent of Blanche's old mindset.
p. 70 Street-Car: The term "street-car" is another name for a trolley. They use to be used to transfer passengers as well as freight, goods, back and forth on a rail system. Generally, trolleys will follow a certain rail, which indicates that it just goes back and forth under the same route. The street-car that Blanche travels on, "Desire", gives the metaphorical connotation that desire is cyclical or perhaps a constant idea or thought in the back of people's minds that just goes back and forth, back and forth.
p. 70 Poker: Stanley, the previous night, loses his temper after losing a game of poker. Poker is a game where two or more players bet on the combination of cards, their "hand", and whoever has the highest ranking "hand" in the card hierarchy or whoever is left after the other players have "folded", quit, wins the "pot", all the money that is wagered. Poker takes deception as well as strategy to win. If the player can trick the other players into believing that they have an unbeatable hand when they don't, they have a shot of winning, or in the other instance the player can trick the other players into believing that they have a bad hand and thus leading the other players to wager all their money, they can make more money. Stanley loses the game due to the card hierarchy, but later he rapes Blanche leading the reader to believe that he has won the other "game", and has deceived the audience into believing that he was as clear-cut as Blanche had once believed.